Thursday, January 31, 2008

Well, here is the list of WGIII authors. WGIII was charged with figuring out how to mitigate problems arising from climate change based on the WGI (scientific basis) and WGII (impacts, adaptation and vulnerability), so they needed economists, agronomists, and oil company people as well as climate scientists. Again, using Google Scholar it is pretty easy to see that these folk had been working on climate related problems. Eli has provided a sample publication for the first 14 or so

21. BERTOLDI, Paolo, Joint Research Centre of the EC, Italy, Standby Power Use: How Big is the Problem? What Policies and Technical Solutions Can Address It? P Bertoldi, B Aebischer, C Edlington, C Hershberg, … - Proceedings of the 2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy, 2002 - repositories.cdlib.org ABSTRACT: Standby power, as defined in this paper, is the electricity consumed by end-use electrical equipment when it is switched off or not performing its main function. Standby power consumption represents an increasing fraction

25. BOARDMAN, Brenda, Oxford ECI, United Kingdom, Lower Carbon Futures for European Households T Fawcett, K Lane, B Boardman - 2000 - eci.ox.ac.uk Substantial carbon savings can be made by European households from increasing the efficiency of use of gas and electricity. Although this may not be a new message, it is still a necessary one. Kyoto targets are fast approaching, ...

30. BOUILLE, Daniel, Bariloche Foundation, Argentina, Reform of the Electric Power Sector in Developing Countries: Case Study of Argentina - D Bouille, H Dubrovsky - Buenos Aires: Institute of Energy Economics, Fundacion …, 2000 - pdf.wri.org This paper was written as part of a collaborative project on power sector reform and public benefits in developing and transition economies coordinated by the World Resources Institute.

31. BRADLEY, Richard, International Energy Agency, United States of America

Saturday, January 26, 2008

A day or so ago Eli pointed out that there is a remarkable correlation between all of the global temperature measurements, GISS, HadCRUT, RSS and UAH. Over at Tamino's place some of the unusual suspects are claiming that the GISS temperature record is diverging from the satellite records. The data says no, but it also says some other interesting things. First, let us look at the annual differences between the two microwave sounder reconstructions, RSS-UAH

The diagram shows the difference between the RSS and UAH series, after the different zeroing for the two series has been corrected for by subtracting the average difference over the entire period. The most interesting thing here (at least to your friendly bunny) is that there was a systematically increasing difference between RSS and UAH (shown by the trend line btw 1979 and 2005), but that appears to have decreased starting in 2002 and disappeared in ~2005. That could be a statistical fluctuation or a result of something physical. Perhaps related to the launch of the AMSU on Aqua. Time will tell.Next, we can look at the difference between the RSS MSU lower troposphere record and the GISS ocean+surface stations record. There is no trend here. It is interesting that in 1998, with a strong El Nino, the lower troposphere (~0.5K) warmed more than the surface (~0.3K)

UPDATE: The abbreviations are getting to the mice. Here is a brief summary:

MSU - Microwave Sounder Unit - First flown on satellites in 1979AMSU - Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit - Flown first on satellites in the late 1990sRSS - Remote Sensing Systems - a global temperature reconstruction from the (A)MSUs. Key people are Carl Mears and Frank WentzUAH - University of Alabama Huntsville - the original (A)MSU reconstruction, 1993. Key people are John Christy and Roy Spencer, aka Christy and SpencerGISSTEMP - often called GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies surface temperature record. Comes in two flavors, surface stations only, and combined with ocean surface temperatures. Key people are Jim Hansen, Makito Sato and Reto RuedyHadCRUT - Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research surface temperature record. Comes in several flavors. See the link. Key person Phil Jones

Like John Hersey Eli writes a list of 619 climate scientists for Morano, the IPCC WGI authors. The Rabett has listed these in alphabetical order and used Google Scholar to find the papers written by the first five eleven. We suggest the same exercise if you have any issues. Unlike the 400 Club (a list with links) these are real climate scientists not wanna bes, TV weather guys and girls, and the occasional gardener. Known bloggers in RED they must be important. NASA Employees in true blue.

3. ALEXANDER, Lisa, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Offi ce, UK, Australia, Ireland Comparison of Modeled and Observed Trends in Indices of Daily Climate Extremes D Kiktev, DMH Sexton, L Alexander, CK Folland - Journal of Climate - Bootstrapping techniques are used to assess the uncertainty in the gridded trend estimates and the field significance of the patterns of observed trends. The findings mainly confirm earlier, less objectively derived, results based on ...

4. ALEXANDERSSON, Hans, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden A homogeneity test applied to precipitation data - H Alexandersson - J. Climatol, 1986 - doi.wiley.com In climate research it is important to have access to reliable data which are free from artificial trends or changes. One way of checking the reliability of a climate series is to compare it with surrounding stations. This is the idea

8. ALLISON, Ian, Australian Antarctic Division and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, Australia, East Antarctic Sea Ice: Albedo, Thickness Distribution, and Snow Cover I Allison, RE Brandt, SG Warren - Journal of Geophysical Research, 1993 - Characteristics of springtime sea ice off East Antarctica were investigatedduring a cruise of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in October through December 1988. The fractional coverage of the ocean ...

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Eli Rabett, a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny who finally handed in the keys and retired from his wanna be research university. The students continue to be naive but great people and the administrators continue to vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional without Eli's help. Eli notices from recent political developments that this behavior is not limited to administrators. His colleagues retain their curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves. Prof. Rabett is thankful that they, or at least some of them occasionally heeded his pointing out the implications of the various enthusiasms that rattle around the department and school. Ms. Rabett is thankful that Prof. Rabett occasionally heeds her pointing out that he is nuts.